Yes, the reality was barer than the picture that she had seen.
They are poorer and barer than the worst you would see in Russia.
If our life and worship was barer and harder than that of the past, it was also far higher.
A simpler, barer place than a room in barracks it would be hard to imagine.
She found his room poorer and barer even than she had fancied it might be.
Life in such a country was even rougher and barer than in the Waxhaws.
barer than the heavens emptied of the constellations that are called by their names.
The room appeared harder, barer, emptier than when I had seen it before.
Snake made lights with the jewels, and once more they began to pick their way over the terrain, barer and barer of vegetation.
Facing the village is the wooded hill of Stantonbury (to be distinguished from its barer neighbour Wynbury).
Old English barian, from bare (adj.). Related: Bared; baring.
Old English bær "naked, uncovered, unclothed," from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (cf. German bar, Old Norse berr, Dutch baar), from PIE *bhosos (cf. Armenian bok "naked;" Old Church Slavonic bosu, Lithuanian basas "barefoot"). Meaning "sheer, absolute" (c.1200) is from the notion of "complete in itself."
